Doctor's Error

December 1, 1985

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — The family of the 19-month-old baby went to the mortuary and asked to see the body. It was removed from a refrigerated compartment. The child, a girl, was alive. Medical personnel attempted to save her life but she died after about two hours. The baby was taken by her mother, a Palestinian, to a hospital in the West Bank town of Jenin for treatment, said a police spokesman. A doctor declared the child dead and ordered the body sent to a mortuary. A committee of inquiry is investigating.